the food sector in Viet Nam. The results based on a 3-year panel show that the application of private standards improves …

' transitions within the informal sector and between informal and formal employment. A binary logit model is applied to General … Household Survey panel data for the periods 2010/11, 2012/13, and 2015/16. We find that informal employment has the greatest … transition of workers within different types of informal employment. Our results further indicate that both self-employed and …

Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Using a life cycle model, we argue that a long wage payment lag in this flagship … employment options. Empirical evidence based on primary data lends support to our key theoretical prediction that wage payment …

This paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is …, the link between innovation and employment is more ambiguous. R&D targeted towards product innovation has been typically … associated with employment growth. Process innovations may have a positive effect, but also have the potential to reduce the …

Africa, but they also have higher failure rates. Ignoring firm exit exaggerates net employment growth. Using panel data for … prospects for employment creation. -- aid ; small enterprise ; employment ; firm exit ; Africa …

employment promotion (involving income generation and small enterprise and co-operative development, public investment for job … employment and expanding social protection during the last 10-15 years, in particular, largely targeting those poor women mostly …

creating incentives for the population to enter formal employment. However, empirical evidence on labour supply elasticities in … the presence of informal employment remains scarce. This paper analyses female labour supply behaviour and the choice … between formal and informal employment in Ecuador, a middle-income country characterized by persistent levels of informal …

This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among … urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post … did not experience any significant impact on employment post pandemic, as reported by their husbands. Second, we document …

Using decomposition methods, we analyse the role of the changing nature of work in explaining changes in employment …